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In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me. ↗


— Carter Burwell


#difficult #genre #hair #i #just

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. 'If you want to be a SpecOp,' the saying goes, 'act kinda weird... ↗


— Jasper Fforde


#art #crime #detectives #literary #military

The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort of master plan after all. Despite all his earlier conjecturing, maybe the universe, Mr Fate or whoever was laughing its fat and meddling head at him. The outlandish evidence did seem to speak for itself, truly suggesting a mocking narrative devised by some mischievous author because quite simply a banana condom had brought Midnight into the world and a banana skin had seen him out. Putting those two seeming truths together, Midnight was once again forced to ask such confused and searching questions like: What is this place, where am I heading? And what’s the deal with all the ruddy bananas? ↗


— Tom Conrad


#chance #conception #fate #ghosts #midnight-merlot

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure. ↗


— Armistead Maupin


#appreciative #celebrity #deal #from time to time #great

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ↗


— Herodotus


#great #risks #usually #wrought

He who gets the best players usually wins. ↗


— Bobby Bowden


#gets #players #usually #who #wins

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure. ↗


— Stacie Orrico


#could #dad #even #family #god

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗


— Criss Jami


#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that. ↗


— Ralph Boston


#anything #atmosphere #country #feeling #grown

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different. ↗


— Danny Boyle


#desire #different #easy #film-maker #get






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